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Multilabeled versions of Sperner's and Fan's lemmas and applications

Combinatorics 2019-05-10 v3 Computer Science and Game Theory Algebraic Topology

Abstract

We propose a general technique related to the polytopal Sperner lemma for proving old and new multilabeled versions of Sperner's lemma. A notable application of this technique yields a cake-cutting theorem where the number of players and the number of pieces can be independently chosen. We also prove multilabeled versions of Fan's lemma, a combinatorial analogue of the Borsuk-Ulam theorem, and exhibit applications to fair division and graph coloring.

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@article{arxiv.1801.02044,
  title  = {Multilabeled versions of Sperner's and Fan's lemmas and applications},
  author = {Frédéric Meunier and Francis Edward Su},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.02044},
  year   = {2019}
}

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21 pages, 2 figures